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Message: [QUOTE="Rocktheworld, post: 4489258, member: 5037"] As someone who has been in hospitals going on 8 years now, and a former lifeguard, when I saw the way he got up and then went limp, I knew it was cardiac-related. Not knowing what the immediate responders saw upon their first look at him, they may have immediately known as well. I was watching super closely and never saw any clear movements that indicate that they were doing CPR, especially initially. I think they initially had a pulse and were monitoring it. I remember hearing that they were getting ready to get him into the ambulance when he coded and that’s when they started CPR. That is a massive difference, as he was already on the ground 15 or so minutes before the ambulance got there. Getting to the ambulance and the medications they have was the true first critical step, after accessing defibrillation; and it seemed like they weren’t doing real resuscitation on the field for some extended period prior to the ambulance arriving. I think that relatively short time of CPR before getting to the ambulance what truly made all the difference. As far as I know, don’t come back, at least not this quickly, from 10+ minutes of CPR before getting to the ambulance. [/QUOTE]